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Convergencia Regional En América Latina: 1980-2000

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  • Luis Fernando Cabrera Castellanos
  • Blanca García Alamilla

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El objetivo del presente trabajo es determinar la existencia o no de convergencia (absoluta y condicional) para la región de América Latina y determinar las principales variables que afectan el crecimiento económico de estos países. El trabajo presenta, en una primera parte, la exposición del modelo neoclásico y los conceptos de convergencia absoluta y condicional; en una segunda parte, se presentan los resultados obtenidos para la región, destacando los siguientes: se encuentra evidencia empírica de convergencia absoluta y condicional en el periodo de estudio a una tasa muy similar a la encontrada por otros estudios para otros grupos de países o regiones al interior de un mismo país (alrededor del 2 por ciento).

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  • Luis Fernando Cabrera Castellanos & Blanca García Alamilla, 2008. "Convergencia Regional En América Latina: 1980-2000," Observatorio de la Economía Latinoamericana, Servicios Académicos Intercontinentales SL. Hasta 31/12/2022, issue 93, march.
    • Handle: RePEc:erv:observ:y:2008:i:93:14
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    Keywords

    Convergencia; crecimiento económico; capital humano; América Latina;
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    JEL classification:

    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
    • O54 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Latin America; Caribbean

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